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Since another St. Patrick's Day is upon us, it's only appropriate to highlight the most memorable drunk scenes in film - the good, the bad, and the laugh-out-loud funny. In honor of the beer-filled holiday, we're taking a look at unforgettable drunk moments from iconic movie parties, awkward hookup scenes, and more. From Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy chugging shots in The Heat to Kristen Wiig losing her cool in Bridesmaids, take a look at the best, most memorable drunk moments in movies. Related:16 Must-Watch Films Set in Ireland in Honor of St. Patrick's Day - Additional reporting by Kelsie Gibson

Lifetime is making it official with two of its frequent collaborators, Queen Latifah and Toni Braxton. Variety confirms that both multi-hyphenates have signed major production deals with the network. Latifah will exec produce two music documentary projects, and Braxton is on-board for multiple TV movies.

“Both Queen Latifah and Toni Braxton have been part of the Lifetime family for many years,” said Lifetime and Lmn Evp Tanya Lopez. “Our audiences love them as much as we do and we are excited they will be back on the network for even more.”

Latifah will Ep doc “Where Did the Women of Hip Hop Go?,” which covers the history women in hip hop and rap and “explores what the future holds for the next generation of female emcees.” The “Girls Trip” star will also topline and Ep “U.N.I.T.Y.,” a one-hour special that will

Director-producer Paul Feig has adapted the inclusion rider as part of all the feature film and television productions at his Feigco Entertainment.

The move came a week and a half after Frances McDorrmand sparked interest and support for the term after she concluded her Oscars best actress acceptance speech by saying, “I have two words to leave with you tonight, ladies and gentlemen: inclusion rider.”

“Thrilled to announce that Feigco Entertainment is officially adopting an #inclusionrider for all our film and TV productions moving forward,” Feig wrote Tuesday on Twitter. “Thank you to @Inclusionists and Stacy L. Smith for their guidance and inspiration. We challenge other companies and studios to do the same.”

Backstage at the 90th Academy Awards, McDormand explained an inclusion rider can be added to contracts so that at least 50% of the cast and crew have to be diverse. The topic of diversity and inclusion in Hollywood

Described as “an odd-couple partnership between a brazen, self-centered tech CEO and a community-building social entrepreneur who must overcome their many issues with each other in order to co-run a groundbreaking, all-female tech incubator,” the project was brought to Feig and Rosenstock by Anonymous Content’s Joy Gorman Wettels. Feig is signed on to direct and Rosenstock is penning the script.

The workplace comedy is “inspired by female coders, robotic scientists, and social entrepreneurs.”

Feig created the short-lived but beloved series “Freaks and Geeks.” The four-time Emmy nominee has

Community star and former host of The Soup, Joel McHale, will return to topical, satirical comedy with his new Netflix series, The Joel McHale Show. The weekly, half-hour show – which launches globally on Sunday, February 18th – will feature sketches, celebrity guest spots and video clips spanning TV, sports, politics and celebrity culture.

Melissa McCarthy has been making us laugh in the last decade with movie hits such as Ghostbusters, Spy, The Heat, and Bridesmaids. However, Melissa is also well known for multiple successful TV programs. She first won our hearts as Sookie St. James in Gilmore Girls, and since then she’s starred in Mike & Molly. She’s also done several Saturday Night Live guest appearances and has also appeared in Conan and Nobodies. However, before any of these happened after Gilmore Girls, Melissa actually starred in a mockumentary that was released in 2007 to a limited audience. That mockumentary is now finding

Jamie Foxx plays Vegas cop Vincent Downs, whom we first meet in the throes of a violent robbery. He’s stealing a whole bunch of cocaine, which belongs to a casino owner named Rubino (Dermot Mulroney). Problem is, Rubino himself owes it to fearsome gangster Novak (Scoot McNairy), who in turn is in thrall to his megalomaniac father.

After his son is kidnapped by Rubino’s thugs, Downs tries to return the drugs. But he is confounded by Internal Affairs partners Bryant (Michelle Monaghan) and Dennison (David Harbour); suspecting corruption, they step in to disrupt the deal. But in doing so they instigate a sleepless night of fighting,

The deal was announced out of the Toronto International Film Festival. “Vigilance” follows an American who gets a job at a London armored car company that was the target of a robbery. Her motivations for working there grow more mysterious and tangled.

Melissa McCarthy has lined up her next project. The comedy superstar will team up with her producing partner, frequent collaborator, and husband Ben Falcone on an untitled film about Boston’s first female cops in the 1970s, Variety reports. McCarthy and Falcone have signed on to produce the New Line project, which will be based on an as-yet unpublished book by Alexandra Lydon. McCarthy is also expected to star in the drama as one of Boston’s inaugural policewomen.

Lydon’s book was bought by Picador USA and “follows the transition of black and white women joining the Boston Police Department as they find themselves on the front lines of a racially divided city and become unwitting participants in a social revolution,” Variety summarizes.

McCarthy and Falcone will produce via their On the Day production company and Lydon will serve as executive producer. No word on a director or screenwriter yet.

This will not be the first time McCarthy has portrayed a Boston cop. The “Ghostbusters” star took on the role of Detective Shannon Mullins in the 2013 comedy “The Heat” opposite Sandra Bullock. McCarthy will also play a detective investigating a serial killer who is targeting puppets in “The Happytime Murders,” an R-rated comedy set to hit theaters August 17, 2018. The Emmy winner is attached to produce that project as well.

McCarthy’s next gigs include two features directed by Falcone: “Life of the Party,” a college-set comedy, and “Margie Claus,” a holiday musical revolving around Santa Claus’ wife. McCarthy co-wrote both scripts.

She’s also signed up to star in Marielle Heller’s “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” a dark comedy about a journalist who forges letters from late writers and actors.

Melissa McCarthy to Topline and Produce Film About Boston’s First Female Cops was originally published in Women and Hollywood on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Paul Feig is directing the film, with shooting starting on Aug. 14 in Toronto. Kendrick will play a mommy blogger trying to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of her best friend, portrayed by Lively. Golding has been cast as Lively’s character’s husband.

Fox 2000 was originally developing the project after buying the movie rights to “A Simple Favor” in a preemptive deal. The story is in the vein of Gillian Flynn’s 2012 novel “Gone Girl” and Paula Hawkins’ 2015 debut “The Girl on the Train” — two best-selling thrillers in which a female protagonist disappears from a seemingly perfect relationship, part of the “domestic noir” genre.

You may know Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone for their hilarious onscreen moments, like the semi-awkward yet chuckle-worthy sex scene that played during the ending credits of Bridesmaids (you know, the one that involved a gigantic sandwich). Oh, and let's not forget the time Ben made a cameo in The Heat for a quick bar makeout session with Melissa's character, Shannon Mullins. But there's way more to Ben and Melissa than what's been captured for the movies. The dynamic duo met during improv school in 1998 and tied the knot in 2005. Since then, they've welcomed two daughters into the world and have enjoyed an 11-year marriage that we have to imagine has been filled with plenty of laughs. Read on to witness the sweet evolution of their relationship. Related19 Funny Couples Who Know That Nothing's Sexier Than a Sense of Humor

Stay in the loop on industry and casting news with our write-up on who’s been slated for recent film and television roles! “The Happytime Murders”Melissa McCarthy may have proved a difficult officer to work with in “The Heat,” but the actor is looking to team up and fight some crime with an old puppet pal for her next film, “The Happytime Murders.” The project, which hearkens back to Jim Henson’s heyday, will pair humans with puppeteers in a time when Earth finds itself inhabited by both. Often at odds with one another, two detectives from either side of the human-puppet fence will have to team up to stop a series of mysterious murders occurring on a popular children’s television show. While McCarthy is the only human talent currently attached, McCarthy/Abellera Casting has its work cut out for it with finding both actors and puppeteers to fill the various roles.

Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively may be teaming up for a murder mystery. Deadline reports that the actresses are in talks to star in “A Simple Favor,” a project being set up at Lionsgate. Paul Feig has signed on to write and direct the film.

Based on Darcey Bell’s 2017 novel of the same name, “A Simple Favor” centers on a mommy blogger whose best friend suddenly disappears. The book has earned comparisons to two other page-turners that went on to receive big screen adaptations, Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl” and Paula Hawkins’ “The Girl on the Train.”

Lively has already signed on to star in another adaptation of a mystery novel, “Big Little Lies” author Liane Moriarty’s “The Husband’s Secret.” “The Shallows” star will play a woman who discovers a shocking secret that her husband has been hiding for years.

Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively in Talks to Star in Paul Feig’s “A Simple Favor” was originally published in Women and Hollywood on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Paul Feig hasn’t had the easiest year. After a string of comedy hits—”Bridesmaids,” “The Heat,” “Spy“—the director went blockbuster with “Ghostbusters,” and immediately faced backlash from hardcore fans who feared that women might ruin their precious childhood memories. It didn’t help that the final result didn’t get the best reviews either, nor that Dan Aykroyd publicly slammed the movie.

Netflix has announced the release date for its new comedy series “Atypical,” a series about an 18-year-old boy on the autism spectrum who’s learning to navigate life. The announcement came with a clip from its premiere episode, and parents of teenagers will relate.

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According to the summary provided by Netflix, “Sam decides it is time to go on a date, find a girlfriend and hopefully love, a journey that sets Sam’s mother, Elsa (played by Jason Leigh), on her own life-changing path as her son seeks more independence. Sam’s entire family must adjust to change, all

Scarlett Johansson leads an adept comic cast in a debauched take on Weekend at Bernie’s that has laughs but isn’t quite the slam-dunk it should have been

After the Oscar-nominated, $288m global success of Bridesmaids, it seemed as if the film industry would finally put to rest the tired assumption that female-fronted comedies can’t be just as successful as their male counterparts (in fact, it remains the highest-grossing Judd Apatow-produced film to date). But progress was strangely, frustratingly slow, and despite the darnedest efforts of Bridesmaids director Paul Feig (who went on to make The Heat, Spy and Ghostbusters) and, well, Bad Moms, this particular glass ceiling has remained relatively crack-free.

We still have a few blessed months before we’re bombarded with Christmas-themed advertising, but here’s some holiday news worth celebrating in June: Melissa McCarthy is set to topline and produce “Margie Claus,” a holiday musical she co-wrote. The Hollywood Reporter writes that New Line has picked up the comedy project.

The Oscar winner will play the title character, Santa Claus’ wife Margie. After Santa goes missing while delivering presents on Christmas Eve, Margie swings into action. She puts together a rescue team and ventures away from the North Pole — for the first time in decades — to save Santa and Christmas.

Described as a “broad holiday family musical that New Line hopes will be in the same spirit (and have the same success) as another company Christmas movie, ‘Elf,’” “Margie Claus” will be directed by McCarthy’s frequent collaborator — and husband — Ben Falcone.

Melissa McCarthy to Star in Christmas Musical “Margie Claus” was originally published in Women and Hollywood on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Now more than ever, the world could use a laugh. This bizarre, in-progress century has already produced any number of great comedies, which is to say that many of your (and our) favorites were left out: sorry, “Toy Story 3”; sorry, “Knocked Up.” As we tend to lean toward the indie side — and away from certain men-behaving-badly movies — there are also some titles on here that you might not have seen.

There are even some you may not consider to be straightforward comedies. You may not think of “Lost in Translation” or “Mistress America” as laugh riots, but we felt it best to be broad in our approach — any movie that balances its darker shades with cathartic humor was eligible. You’ll notice that we like women and Working Title (the British production company responsible for several titles on this list), which is to say: This is less a definitive

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